Cold War

My easy like Sunday morning helpful resources reads: Medical: • Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment (ALNAP) • Blood plasma taken from covid-19 survivors might help patients fight off the disease (MIT Technology Review) • The Best Hopes for a Coronavirus Drug (The Atlantic) • Pfizer Identifies Lead Coronavirus Drug…

Last October, Issa Rae announced a new partnership with Atlantic Records, introducing the world to her own Raedio Label focused on cultivating new and exciting talent while providing music supervision for other television shows. With Insecure set to kick off its fourth season on HBO this Sunday, April 12, Atlantic…

The "Parenthood" star and son Noah Nelson are teaming up for a drama set during the height of the Cold War. Landmark Studio Group has announced that it is developing “The Operative,” an international spy drama series that will star Craig T. Nelson. Per Landmark, Nelson will play a retired…

Despite a favourable opinion of his agenda, Bernie Sanders could not overcome Joe Biden Bernie Sanders’ withdrawal from the race for the presidential nominee from the Democratic Party at this juncture comes as no surprise. Ever since the Democratic Party field narrowed down to just two, with former Vice-President Joe…

An A-10 Thunderbolt II made a belly landing at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, after its pilot declared an in-flight emergency Tuesday during a routine training flight, according to the Air Force. The A-10C, assigned to the 75th Fighter Squadron at the base, touched down "without its landing gear extended,"…

Prototype Designed during World War II, only one prototype was built, the XB-36 seen here. It first flew in August 1946. While there were numerous differences between this and the first production aircraft, the most noticeable is the more traditional cockpit design. Read the article Published:April 8, 2020Caption:Geoffrey MorrisonPhoto:National Museum…

COLD WAR II: GOP sounds alarm after ‘quasi-official’ Chinese outlet gains access to coronavirus press briefing, promotes Beijing. “Only last week, there were multiple flights coming from China full of medical supplies,” the reporter from Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV began during Monday’s briefing. “Companies like Huawei and Alibaba have been…

The following is an exclusive excerpt from Always Day One, the new book from BuzzFeed News reporter Alex Kantrowitz on the business strategies and cultures at the most important technology companies today. Here, Kantrowitz looks at a little-known organization inside Apple often at odds with the rest of the company…

United States Department of Defense/Wikimedia It might surprise you to learn that nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War are now helping conserve whale sharks, the largest living fish. Growing up to 18 metres – longer than the average bus – whale sharks live in all tropical oceans. In Australia,…

Whale sharks can reach 18 metres in length and, according to a new technique, at least 50 years of age. Credit: Wayne Osborn Zoology 07 April 2020 Radioactive fallout from the cold war shows that one whale shark studied was 50 years old when it died. Using the radioactive carbon…